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“can you say the word?”
Two high school debaters in the 1980s ride home together on a school bus after a tournament. He's a star who can speak about anything from nuclear weapons to farm subsidies - but can he tell his teammate how badly he wants to touch her?
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Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route – he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem.

Mason
Dueling high school debate champs who are at odds on just about everything forge ahead with ambitious plans to get into the colleges of their dreams.